William Shakespeare презентация

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as nobody collected any facts for his biography during his lifetime.
The most important sources for the biography of William Shakespeare are official and documentary records: definite, reliable and dull.

was christened in Holy Trinity Church.

W.Shakespeare’s birthplace

Holy Trinity Church

and his mother , Mary Arden, belonged to an ancient and distinguished Catholic family.

William was their third child and the eldest son.
He must have attended Stratford Grammar school, where he acquired the knowledge of Latin.

Hathaway, a daughter of a wealthy yeoman, in 1582.

In 1583 their first child, Susanna was born, and in 1585 the twins, Hamnet and Judith, followed her.
After the birth of the twins we know absolutely nothing about Shakespeare’s life for the next seven years.

and had started writing plays.

In 1593 a serious epidemic of the plague broke out, and all the theatres were closed down.
At that time William Shakespeare became a share-holder, the principal playwright and an actor of the Globe theatre on the southern bank of the Thames in London.

he composed sonnets.

As the time passed, he became rather rich, wrote less and in 1613 after the Globe had been destroyed by fire, Shakespeare retired to Stratford where he died on April, 23, 1616.
He was buried in the same Holy Trinity Church, where he was christened.

and published in a single volume known as the First Folio.
His literary work may be divided into four periods. The plays are dated according to the theatrical season in which they were first staged.
William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets.

that were written under the influence of the University Wits.

1590/91 Henry VI, parts II and III
1591/92 Henry VI, part I
1592/93 Richard III
The Comedy of Errors
1593/94 Titus Andronicus
The Taming of the Shrew

Love’s Labour Lost
Romeo and Juliet
1595/96 Richard II
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
1596/97 King John
The Merchant of Venice

During the second period William Shakespeare mainly wrote historical plays, chronicles, comedies . The only tragedy was “Romeo and Juliet”:

Henry V
1599/1600 Julius Caesar
As You Like It
Twelfth Night

the peak of his achievement, and made him truly immortal:

1600/01 Hamlet
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1601/02 Troilus and Cressida
1603/04 All’s Well That Ends Well
1604/05 Measure for Measure
Othello

Antony and Cleopatra
1607/08 Coriolanus
Timon of Athens

the romantic dramas – plays written around a dramatic conflict, but the tension in them is not so great as in tragedies, all of them have happy endings:

1608/09 Pericles
1609/10 Cymberline
1610/11 The Winter’s Tale
1611/12 The Tempest
1612/13 Henry VIII